Ag Leader Technology Blog

This video explains the features on the mapping screen, explaining what can be changed, controlled or edited through the options on the mapping screen.

This video demonstrates how to select the proper configuration for your current field operation.

This video explains how you can create new planting products for your current operation.

This video demonstrates the different ways to create growers, farms and fields within your display.

This video demonstrates how to create application products, including pre-defined products, herbicides or tank mixes, as well as how to select your product for your current field operation.

This video demonstrates how to change planting products while in a field in your current operation.

This video demonstrates how to change to a different field and keep your current configurations.

Ag Leader offers several resources to growers as you get started this spring. As always, you can reach our Tech Support team by calling 515-232-5363 or emailing support@agleader.com. Ag Leader Tech Support has extended our hours for spring. We are now open Monday-Friday, 7:00a.m. to 8:00p.m. CST; Saturday, 8:00a.m. to 4:00p.m.; and Sunday from 12:00p.m. [...]

Once your display is updated and ready to go to the field, check that the precision equipment on the planter is working correctly as well.  First, make sure you can load your planter configuration. If the display detects out of date CAN module firmware, it will prompt the user to update these modules. All you [...]

I like to think of my father as a good teacher.  One lesson Dad taught me was to always check my vehicle fluids and air pressure before leaving on a long trip.  As I prepared to drive my old truck back to college one fall, Dad reminded me to check the oil before I headed [...]

Last week, Mark Irvin introduced to you to the new Technical Support Video Tutorials. Our machine guidance support staff has been working on videos about Ag Leader’s guidance and steering products as well.
The guidance and steering videos – available for both the EDGE and INTEGRA displays – include an explanation of the guidance patterns available [...]

This video walks through how to navigate the ParaDyme user interface and where to find some basic settings, such as changing your vehicle profile or GPS source and requesting help through the display. (Please visit the Knowledgebase on Ag Leader’s Customer Support page (http://support.agleader.com/) for more information about entering GPS offsets when using ParaDyme.)

This video walks through the OnTrac2 user interface, showing how to set up a vehicle, calibrate your OnTrac2 and more. (Please visit the Knowledgebase on Ag Leader’s Customer Support page (http://support.agleader.com/) for more information about entering GPS offsets when using OnTrac2.)

As winter trainings come to an end, someone will inevitably ask me “What are you going to do with all of your free time now that training is over?”  Some one will ask me the same question at the end of planting, and again in November at the end of harvest.  The truth is, tech [...]

This video demonstrates how to create a new self-propelled sprayer in your display, including setting important measurements and GPS offsets.

This video shows how to import and manage an .MSF (Management Setup File). An .MSF is used to import management items into a display, such as growers, farms, field names, boundaries, products/product mixes and guidance patterns.

This video goes through the creation of a new tractor and properly setting measurements and GPS offsets. (If you are using OnTrac2 or ParaDyme, please visit the Knowledgebase on Ag Leader’s Customer Support page (http://support.agleader.com/) for more information about entering GPS offsets.)

This video explains how to create field boundaries, the difference between inner and outer boundaries and the importance of boundary offsets.

Ag Leader is proud to announce that Gary Paarlberg of Grant Park, IL, was the winner of the Ag Leader EDGE Display Giveaway at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kentucky.
Paarlberg said his brother Bruce found the EDGE Display Giveaway entry form on Ag Leader’s Facebook page, and gave it to him to fill [...]

It has been awhile since my last blog post, so I wanted to take a moment to catch everyone up with what is happening at Ag Leader Academy.   Our Technical Support team spent a large amount of time both before and after harvest building equipment for our 2011 Ag Leader dealer training.  Below are a [...]